Lonching of facebook

Launching of facebook
The facebook was launched on February Forth 2004. The first 3 Accounts were test accounts. The next few were accounts belonging to Mark Zukerburg and the friends who helped him. At first the website was exclusive to students at Harvard.
When facebook was in its early days it seemed like a safer site because everyone needed a school email address to register. This meant anyone on facebook was guaranteed to be a student. The second reason it was safer in those days is everyone had to use their real name. Everyone was who they said they were. Now you can register from any email address and set a profile to any name. For example people have role-playing facebook accounts. If they want they can set their account a nick name or just first and middle names. People may do this because accounts are checked when applying for jobs. When comparing this, a person can really see how far the website has come in the past six or seven years.
What bothered me when reading this section of “the facebook effect”, is how it kept referring to dating , and underlying meanings about the phrase “poke”. Not everyone this age is looking for a quick hookup, like the novel suggests. Also the influencing sites, such as myspace, are used as dating pages. Users on myspace, are more likely to connect to friends and interest groups than use it as an alternative to something like match.com. I found that the author makes too many generalizations.